F2FS Tools Gain FSCK Support

[dalingrin]

binary PKGBUILD? Well I only see something like this for closed source software, never see a "binary PKGBUILD" for open source software in AUR. And yes, on Arch you don't need compile everything if you use software from official repo. I am just compiling my own kernel because I apply gcc optimization on it https://github.com/graysky2/kernel_gcc_patch and disable NUMA (since I am using regular desktop PC witch one multi core cpu so I don' need NUMA).

Really? There are plenty of binary packages that aren't closed source. Chromium, firefox, etc. Search for "-bin" and you'll find ~400 packages and that is only those that use the bin label. There many others that don't use the bin label.

[rusty]

Antergos has F2FS no need for any repos.

[Nobu]

I don't know what you can confuse it with, but guy meant 3rd party repositories where users provide up-to-date compiled versions of their AUR packages.
Like 'linux-ck-*' or 'linux-mainline'.

I think he meant ones like this: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/abrowser-bin/

Rather than building abrowser, it fetches a binary and packages (or repackages, as in this case) it in pacman's package format.

[dragonn]

And this changes what? AUR packages are by their nature very specifical or not popular enough, otherwise, as it happens, they would end up in Arch official repositories.

This is only party true, I have 46 packages from AUR, sometimes they are older version of some software (for example skype 4.2, I don't like 4.3 with needs PulseAudio), some are development version for example git version of some software just because I need some new functions in this software. They are many packages in AUR with are popular but they are so specific so they will never land in Arch official repositories.

[magika]

Only a small part of AUR packages is available in 3rd party repos.

And this changes what? AUR packages are by their nature very specifical or not popular enough, otherwise, as it happens, they would end up in Arch official repositories.

[dragonn]

I don't know what you can confuse it with, but guy meant 3rd party repositories where users provide up-to-date compiled versions of their AUR packages.
Like 'linux-ck-*' or 'linux-mainline'.

Only a small part of AUR packages is available in 3rd party repos.

[magika]

I don't know what you can confuse it with, but guy meant 3rd party repositories where users provide up-to-date compiled versions of their AUR packages.
Like 'linux-ck-*' or 'linux-mainline'.

[dragonn]

I generally agree with you but you definitely don't generally need to compile everything on Arch. You *can* and they do make it easier than most distributions. However, all their repos are binary unless you count AUR which almost always has binary PKGBUILDs for the most popular popular packages.

binary PKGBUILD? Well I only see something like this for closed source software, never see a "binary PKGBUILD" for open source software in AUR. And yes, on Arch you don't need compile everything if you use software from official repo. I am just compiling my own kernel because I apply gcc optimization on it https://github.com/graysky2/kernel_gcc_patch and disable NUMA (since I am using regular desktop PC witch one multi core cpu so I don' need NUMA).

[kaprikawn]

Interesting. I've been using Arch for over 5 years now and I didn't know such a thing as a 'binary PKGBUILD' existed. Unless you mean those services that compile your AUR packages for you ...

You mean like YAOURT?

[willmore]

Arch Linux is a binary distribution, as Fedora; its users can, but do not have to build anything. As for Fedora, I guess it wasn't enabled for legitimate reasons; after all, F2FS is not yet considered stable, and, up until now, f2fs-tools did not offer checking capabilities. It was probably chosen to close the road to prevent naive users from walking in and being damaged.

I'm not asking that Fedora support F2FS for boot/root/user/etc., but they make it vary hard to mount images from Android devices.

Since when if Fedora supposed to be a distro for naive users?